Tri-Boot drive?

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Hello, as you can tell by the title, I have a question regarding how many OS's I can have on my drive. I am currently running a dual boot with Windows 7 Ultimate x64, and Ubuntu Linux 11.04 x64, booting with grub. I have a 640gb Caviar Black Main drive, and a 300gb Velociraptor, if that matters.
 
You can go up to a Quad Boot. The reason I say that is this. You can only have 4 Primary Partitions on any hard drive. After that they go to Logical and Extended partitions. So while you could go with more than 4 on any single drive, the ones on the Logical or Extended partitions will have to be nothing but Linux as Windows will only allow you to use Primary partitions to install to.

Since you have multiple drives, you could go as high as 8 OS's. 4 Primary partitions on each drive all containing a OS.
 
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